White Evangelicals are OK With Donald Trump Taking the Lord’s Name in Vain

July 20, 2019robertpaulreyes

At the now infamous North Carolina rally Donald Trump’s supporters echoed their messiah’s racist tweet by chanting “send her back” when he attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar. The lawmaker makes the perfect foil for Trump, she’s a progressive female Muslim woman of color.

Needless to say Trump didn’t channel John McCain by trying to silence the unpatriotic and racist chant. Instead he remained silent for 13 seconds, basking in the racism of his followers, before he continued speaking.

The controversial “send her back” crowd chant garnered all the headlines, but something else happened at the campaign event that’s been overlooked. As usual Trump sprinkled his speech with obscenities, now that’s not breaking news for we all know that a skunk is going to stink, a pig is going to wallow in mud and Trump is going to swear like a sailor on crack.

The hypocritical white evangelicals in the audience weren’t bothered by Trump’s swear words, they regard the vulgarities as part of his endearing charm. But this time Trump took the Lord’s name in vain, not once, but twice. Trump said “goddamn” twice, once when he quoted himself telling a businessman that he was going to be so goddam poor, if he didn’t support him, and the second time in reference to how hard America’s military was going to strike Iran, should their conflict escalate to a war.

Evangelicals go ballistic whenever a heathen takes the Lord’s name in vain, they see it as overwhelming evidence that they are in the presence of a demon-possessed individual. If a Trump supporter tried to win me over to his side, I could stop him dead in his tracks if I blurted: I will never support your Goddamn racist president. He would make the sign of the cross, and make a quick escape.

Trump’s sycophants don’t have any problems with his racism, vulgarity, greed, intolerance and vanity, and apparently they don’t have any issues with his taking the name of the Lord in vain either.

In fact, if Trump took a dump on the Bible in the middle of 5^th Avenue he wouldn’t lose more than a handful of his white evangelical supporters. His base thinks he’s above the law, and therefore unimpeachable, and a Messiah, and therefore any obscenity he utters is a fragrant scent to Almighty God.

What a bunch of goddam reprobates!

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Perfect Phrase to Describe Donald Trump: Occupant of the White House

July 18, 2019robertpaulreyes

“In an exclusive interview with CBS This Morning, Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley and three Congresswomen dubbed ‘the Squad’ reacted to President Trump’s controversial tweets telling them to ‘go back’ to their countries of origin — even though three of them were born in the U.S. and all are American citizens.

‘We can talk about and spin out on hate, about hateful words, which are a predictable prompt by the occupant of this White House. And I call him that not because I don’t have respect for the Oval Office,’ Pressley said.

King asked Pressley if she believes calling Trump ‘the occupant’ shows disrespect for the Oval Office.

‘No, because he is only occupying the space. He does not embody the principles, the responsibility, the grace, the integrity of a true president and so for that reason, I’m not dishonoring the office. He does every day,’ she said. “

CBS Boston

Donald Trump has been called many things including Racist-in-Chief, short-fingered vulgarian, fucking moron and Cadet Bone Spurs, but the Occupant of the White House is perhaps the most fitting term.

Trump has no more intrinsic value than a potted plant in the Oval Office, he just takes up place. He’s an oxygen thief who sucks up all the oxygen in a room and replaces it with toxic gas emanating from his sphincter-like mouth.

The buffoon is as out of place in the White House as a prostitute in a convent or a skid row drunkard at a wine tasting at a vineyard.

Trump doesn’t embody or represent the gravitas, grace and governance of the White House, he’s merely the occupant.

I have never received anything of importance in a letter that was addressed to “occupant”, certainly not a check or a letter from a friend. Letters labeled “occupant” go directly to the waste can without being opened.

The occupant of the White House should be evicted hopefully via impeachment. But if the interloper is still around in 2020, we should vote him out of office.

Trump is Right! Paul Ryan is Weak, Ineffective & Stupid. Just Like Trump

July 14, 2019robertpaulreyes

“People like….Paul Ryan almost killed the Republican Party. Weak, ineffective & stupid are not exactly the qualities that Republicans, or the CITIZENS of our Country, were looking for. Right now our spirit is at an all time high, far better than the Radical Left Dems.

Donald Trump tweet

Trump is a master of projection, “weak, ineffective & stupid” are of course characteristics that perfectly describe the short-fingered vulgarian.

It wasn’t Paul Ryan and the spineless Republican leaders who killed the Grand Old Party, they merely looking on helplessly as Trump eviscerated the party and then pissed all over the entrails.

However, Trump is spot on, Paul Ryan is weak, ineffective and stupid. Why is it that Republican congressional leaders only discover that they have vocal chords, a spine, and gonads after they leave office?

Trump turned his fury on Ryan after an interview the former Speaker of the House gave to Tim Alberta for the book “American Carnage.” In the book Ryan is quoted as saying:

“We’ve gotten so numbed by it all. Not in government, but where we live our lives, we have a responsibility to try and rebuild. Don’t call a woman a ‘horse face.’ Don’t cheat on your wife. Don’t cheat on anything. Set a good example.”

These words would have had so much more impact if he had uttered them when he was the Speaker of the House, now they just sound like the words of a retired politician who is striving to remain relevant.

In order to get his precious tax cuts that benefited the wealthy Ryan sacrificed his soul and his legacy. STFU Ryan, we don’t need to hear from weak moral cowards!

A MAGA Wedding From the Pit of Hell

July 13, 2019robertpaulreyes

Audra Johnson and her husband Jeff, from Kalamazoo, Michigan, had a ‘Make America Great Again’-themed wedding, with red, white and blue decor. They posted about it using the hashtag #MAGAPatriotWedding, to pay tribute to President Donald Trump. While the bridesmaids were dressed in patriotic blue, it was Audra’s wedding dress that had the public turning heads. After wearing a plain white wedding gown for the ceremony, Audra changed into another gown for photos which featured the words ‘Make America Great Again’ down the front of the dress and ‘Trump’ in sparkly red letters on the back.

USA TODAY

A marriage is a spiritual, legal, and romantic union of two individuals. The couple becomes one entity before God, their friends and family. Introducing politics to this holy equation cheapens the ceremony and corrupts the foundation of their relationship. A marriage based on politics is destined to fail, only love can bind two persons together for a lifetime.

In the wedding photographs that the bride posted to Facebook I don’t see a single person of color, I see only plump white people decked out in red, white and blue. There is no place for black, brown or rainbow flags in a MAGA wedding and a MAGA society, there is only room for white folks dressed up like patriotic idiots.

At least they could have hired Diamond and Silk to provide the entertainment, their brand of coonery would been much appreciated by these patriotic racists.

I long for the day when MAGA hats and MAGA-themed weddings will rightfully be considered as racist as KKK hoods and KKK-officiated weddings.

Pics of the MAGA wedding: http://www.fox5ny.com/news/couple-hosts-maga-themed-wedding

New York Magazine Releases a Trump-Free Issue

July 11, 2019robertpaulreyes

“People may say the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about at all. So, expect a Twitter rant from President Donald Trump about New York magazine’s July 8-21 edition. It doesn’t mention him at all, spare its front cover announcing it’s ‘an entire issue with nothing about Trump!’”

Huffington Post

The New York Magazine isn’t shy about holding Trump accountable, last month the magazine published an excerpt from advice columnist E. Jean Carroll’s memoir in which she accused then real estate developer of raping her in a dressing room of the New York department store Bergdorf Goodman in the mid-1990s.

Trump has such an outsized personality and he’s always opining about every subject under the sun on Twitter, it’s difficult for a magazine or newspaper to ignore him completely in any particular issue. He’s also the President of the United States and Leader of the Free Word, which makes every incoherent speech and nonsensical tweet breaking news.

However, I hope magazines, newspapers, web sites and even cable news outlets follow the New York Magazine’s example and have a Trump-free day at least once a year. The constant onslaught of Trump-related news is killing our brain cells and poisoning our hearts, we need an occasional break from the insanity.

Trump has been featured on the cover of Time Magazine several times, yet he still has a fake issue of the beloved magazine hanging in one of his resorts. Trump is a publicity whore, and it’s incumbent upon the media to starve the beast every once in a while.

I don’t normally but the New York Magazine, or any magazine for that matter, but I will buy the July 8^th issue as a way of saying: Good Job!

Mike Pence Launches ‘Latinos for Trump’ Voting Drive

July 10, 2019robertpaulreyes

Mike Pence launched “Latinos for Trump” in Miami on Tuesday, a quixotic effort by the Trump re-election campaign to motivate Latino voters in advance of the 2020 election.

Miami, a stronghold of conservative Cuban-Americans, is one of the few cities where Pence could hold a “Latinos for Trump” event without being laughed out of town.

“I promise you from the first day of this administration, President Trump has been fighting for the values that are really synonymous with Hispanic and Latino immigrants. Hard work, faith, family, freedom, educational choice, and the American way,” he had the audacity to say.

Pence’s lying rhetoric may have resonated with Miami’s middle class Cuban community, but the 1.2 million Puerto Ricans living in the Sunshine State, many who fled from Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, surely recognized it as unadulterated BS.

Since the day Trump announced that he was running for president by branding Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals, he’s been on a mission from God to disenfranchise Hispanic Americans and to demonize Latino immigrants.

Trump separates children from their parents at the border, depriving them of freedom and basic necessities by housing them in concentration camps. How the hell is that synonymous with respecting Latino values of freedom, family and faith?

Latinos suffering under the Trump regime are already motiving to vote in the 2020 election, and we’re going to kick that racist to the curb.

British Ambassador Criticizes ‘Clumsy and Inept’ Trump Administration in Leaked Memos

July 7, 2019robertpaulreyes

Diplomatic cables sent from the United Kingdom’s ambassador to the United States back to London describe President Donald Trump as inept, insecure and incompetent, a UK government official confirmed Saturday to CNN. While foreign envoys of all nations are often candid in classified dispatches back home, there are periodic episodes when such assessments leak, causing great political embarrassment. Months of efforts by the ambassador, Kim Darroch and his diplomats to build ties and trust with Trump and his political acolytes will be undermined.

CNN

Diplomats are masters of discretion, subtlety and finesse, when meeting face-to-face with dictators and tyrants they are courteous, polite, and well diplomatic. Remember when Donald Trump convened his first full Cabinet meeting since taking office and the heads of very major government agency lavished praise on their boss? That’s how diplomats treat even the most ruthless heads of state, they must swallow their tongues and their pride. A diplomat would address the Antichrist himself as worthy opponent of the Almighty, and as the distinguished ambassador of Satan.

The British government released the following statement:

“The British public would expect our Ambassadors to provide Ministers with an honest, unvarnished assessment of the politics in their country. Their views are not necessarily the views of Ministers or indeed the government. But we pay them to be candid. Just as the US Ambassador here will send back his reading of Westminster politics and personalities.”

Ambassadors are the epitome of civility and discretion when interacting with foreign officials, but when reporting back home to government officials they are expected to be brutally honest. I’m convinced that there isn’t a single foreign ambassador who hasn’t told his superiors back home that Trump is a fucking moron who’s clueless about geopolitics.

Journalists aren’t diplomats and it’s incumbent upon them to be candid and unbiased when reporting on the Trump administration. And as for opinion columnists and bloggers, we are free to render our opinions, and my opinion is that Trump is a pathological liar, serial predator, blithering idiot and life-long racist.

Trump Said Revolutionary War Troops ‘Took Over the Airports’ in His Fourth of July Speech

July 6, 2019robertpaulreyes

“In June of 1775, the Continental Congress created a unified Army out of the Revolutionary Forces encamped around Boston and New York, and named after the great George Washington, commander in chief. The Continental Army suffered a bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown. Our Army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rocket’s red glare it had nothing but victory. And when dawn came, their star-spangled banner waved defiant.”

Excerpt from Donald Trump’s 4^th of July speech at the National Mall

You don’t have to be a stable genius, a rocket scientist or a historian to know that the American Revolution took place more than a century before the invention of the airplane.

We’re accustomed to Trump spewing outrageous lies and sheer nonsense, but why in the name of Sam Hill did the fucking moron blather on about the Continental Army taking over the airports, I presume with their muskets?

Well, you don’t have to be a brain surgeon to realize that Trump is senile, and it’s only a matter of time before he interrupts his speech to summon Mike Pence to come on stage and change his diapers.

On Friday Trump placed the blame on the teleprompter malfunctioning, and it very well may be true that the rain fried the teleprompter, but did it also short-circuit his brain? Old age and not a little rain is responsible for Trump’s brain frequently misfiring. A tornado could hit the stage while Obama delivers a speech on the 4^th of July, and the former president wouldn’t prattle on about George Washington’s army taking over the airports.

Trump has often mocked his Democratic opponents like Hillary Clinton for using teleprompters, so it’s mighty rich of him to blame a malfunctioning teleprompter for his huge gaffe.

If Trump’s mind is so hopelessly addled now, can you imagine how demented he will be when, if God forbid, he’s reelected to a second term?

Anderson Cooper Coins the Perfect Nickname for Donald Trump: Dictator-Curious

July 3, 2019robertpaulreyes

“Anderson Cooper on Monday described President Donald Trump’s affection for authoritarian strongmen leaders as ‘dictator-curious.’

The host of CNN’s ‘Anderson Cooper 360°’ noted how Trump cozied up to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at last week’s G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, before stepping into North Korea to meet its dictator Kim Jong Un.”

Huffington Post

Leave it to gay CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper to come up with the perfect phrase to describe Donald Trump’s affinity for murderous dictators, “dictator-curious.”

This phrase is similar to bi-curious, and certainly Cooper and indeed most of us are familiar with men and women who claim to be bi-curious. It’s my opinion that most of the men who claim to be bi-curious are latent homosexuals who lack the courage to come out as proud gay men.

These bi-curious men will engage in perfunctory sex with their wife or girlfriend, but go wild when they attend a gay bar or club to “experiment” with same-sex attraction.

Trump is indeed “dictator-curious”, he tolerates meetings with our allies like German Chancellor Angela Merkel or British Prime Minister Theresa May, but gets giddy with excitement when meeting a dictator like Russian President Vladimir Putin or North Korean Dear Leader Kim Jong-un.

Trump is miserable being President of the United States, he wishes he could rule by executive action, without having his policies challenged by Congress and the courts.

Trump dreams at night of jailing or killing pesky reporters, exiling Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to San Francisco, and firing the liberal Justices of the Supreme Court.

I don’t think Trump has a poster of a Hustler model in his private bathroom in the White House, methinks the dictator-curious buffoon he has a picture of a smiling Putin.

July 4th National Mall Celebration Will Be a Real Shi* Show

July 2, 2019robertpaulreyes

The July 4^th National Mall celebration has always been a nonpartisan affair with politics taking a backseat to patriotism. Presidents have avoided making an appearance at the National Mall, opting instead to attend events honoring veterans. For example one year President Obama hosted a barbeque on the White House south lawn for 1,200 members of the US Armed Forces.

Tanks and other military hardware will be stationed around the National Mall, and the Blue Angels will do a fly over. American military might is impressive, but our democracy, freedom and diversity is even more impressive, and that’s what should be highlighted on Independence Day.

However, this year the annual event is poised to be one of the gaudiest, over-the-top displays of cult of personality, jingoism and militarism in American History. Trump has dubbed the celebration a “Salute to America”, but it would be more accurate to call it a “Salute to Donald Trump.”

I’m surprised Trump didn’t go full Kim Jong-un and demand that the ultimate phallic symbol, inter-continental missiles be included in the parade.

Trump will deliver a speech turning the holiday into a campaign event, and I hope the broadcast networks and the cable news outlets will have the good sense to boycott the circus. Of course the Trump-friendly Fox News will cover the so-called “Salute to America.”

I have plans for the 4^th of July, and they include eating hot dogs, waving the flag and watching fireworks, but they don’t include watching Trump’s shit show.

Donald Trump is Above the Law in Real Life and on Twitter

June 29, 2019robertpaulreyes

Dozens of women have accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct including ogling, harassment, and even rape. Trump has vehemently denied all these allegations, but who are you going to believe, women who have nothing to gain by coming forward or the cretin who was caught on tape boasting:

“You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”

Last Friday, E. Jean Carroll, a popular advice columnist, alleged that Trump (then a businessman) had raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1996. The story has almost disappeared from the news, eclipsed by the latest Trump outrages, including him jokingly reprimanding Putin not to interfere with the 2020 elections.

Trump has gotten away with sexually assaulting women since the 1970’s, he has not been accountable by the criminal justice system, or by Republican leaders. For all practical purposes, he’s above the law.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report chronicled multiple contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian government officials, and sets out ten incidents in which Trump possibly obstructed justice. Mueller failed to indict Trump of obstruction only because according to Justice Department regulations a sitting president can’t be indicted.

Trump, Attorney General Robert Barr and Congressional Republicans falsely claimed that the report exonerated Trump from charges of collusion and obstruction. Trump has learned nothing from his ordeal, he recently said that he would accept dirt on a political opponent from a representative of a foreign country, without notifying the FBI. For all practical purposes, he’s above the law.

Trump should be impeached for obstruction of justice and a hundred other reasons, but the Democratic-led House of Representatives refuses to impeach him for political considerations. Congress is acting as if he’s above the law.

Trump acts as if he doesn’t have to answer to anyone, he usurps Congressional power by issuing executive actions, and ridicules the other co-equal branch of government, the Judiciary. He lavishly praises tyrants, like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un the Dear Leader of North Korea, he envies their authoritarian systems of government that allows them to act without restraints.

In the real world Trump acts as if he’s a king, because for all practical purposes he is above the law.

Even in the virtual world Trump acts as if he’s above the law. On the social media platforms, especially Twitter, he defames, insults and ridicules his political opponents. Any regular person who acted like Trump on Twitter would have been permanently banned, but he can spread false conspiracy theories, viciously attack people, and outright lie without facing any consequences.

Finally, after millions of complaints that Trump violates the site’s rules prohibiting harassment, and hateful conduct Twitter plans to police Trump’s tweets, adding warning label for “abusive behavior.” Users will have to click on the warning to see the hidden tweet.

Too little, too late! Trump shouldn’t be above the law in real life or online, he should be treated like everyone else.

Surprise: Racist Donald Trump Against Reparations

June 26, 2019robertpaulreyes

President Donald Trump said in an interview on Monday that he thinks the concept of the federal government giving reparations to the descendants of slaves is ‘unusual’ and ‘interesting’ but he doesn’t ‘see it happening.’

USA TODAY

Reparations is a hot button issue on the campaign trail, most of the two dozen or so presidential Democratic candidates support the idea. It was only a matter of time before the stable genius piped in with his thoughts on the controversial idea.

I am “shocked, shocked, shocked” that Trump is against reparations! Who would have thunk that the most racist president in modern history could would express misgivings about the federal government giving reparations to the descendants of slaves. Who would have imagined that the chief executive who has slashed safety net programs that the disenfranchised poor, most of them minorities, rely on isn’t in favor of reparations? Who could have predicted that the man who has delayed replacing the genocidal racist Andrew Jackson with the abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill until he is out of office would look askance at the prospect of reparations? Who could have conceived that the real estate developer who called for the death penalty for the Central Park Five who were unjustly accused would be against justice for the descendants of slaves?

On June 19, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties held a hearing to discuss legislation introduced by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, calling for the creation of a commission to study the lasting effects of slavery’s legacy and what could be done to make amends.

We can only hope that Trump won’t be president if and when there’s a vote in Congress on giving reparations to the descendants of slaves.

Is Donald Trump Going to Replace Mike Pence With Nikki Haley?

June 25, 2019robertpaulreyes

“The headline of an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Monday says it all: Trump-Haley 2020.

The time has come to for President Donald Trump to replace Vice President Mike Pence on the 2020 ticket with former American Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, concludes Andrew Stein, a former president of the New York City Council and a Democratic supporter of the President. Here’s Stein’s key point:

‘It’s too late for Mr. Trump to revamp his political personality. But with the 2016 election in the past, Nikki Haley on the ticket could tamp down the antipathy for Mr. Trump that seems to afflict so many moderate and Republican-leaning women.’”

CNN

On November 7, 2018, Trump confirmed that Mike Pence would be his vice presidential running mate in 2020. But Trump is notoriously fickle and he may change his mind a dozen times before he begins to campaign in earnest after Labor Day.

The stable genius takes a perverse delight in breaking political conventions and his base wouldn’t be particularly upset if he dumped the obsequious Pence for the more independent Haley.

Trump selected the pious evangelical zealot, Mike Pence, to be his running mate to sure up his evangelical support. By appointed two conservative judges to the Supreme Court and nearly 200 conservative judges to federal appeals courts, it’s a safe bet that white evangelicals will vote for Trump come hell or high water. Trump can replace Pence with any conservative Republican without losing any votes.

This weekend on an interview on Meet the Press Chuck Todd asked Trump whether Mike Pence is 100% on your ticket in 2020, and Trump responded:

“Well, look, look — 100%, yes. He’s been a terrific vice president. He’s my friend.”

Trump may very well have been telling the truth, but if a miracle happens and Pence grows some balls any criticizes his boss for any of his myriad indiscretions or insane policy proposals he may very well be replaced by Haley or someone else.

The pertinent question is whether replacing Pence with Haley would guarantee Trump victory in 2020. It’s incredibly sexist to assert that replacing Pence with a female candidate, however qualified she may be, would motivate women to vote for Trump. Trump has already proven that he’s sexist beyond redemption and suburban female voters aren’t going to vote for Trump just because there’s a woman on the ticket.

In fact after four years of chaos, confusion and buffoonery nobody in his or her right mind will vote for Trump in 2020, regardless whom he chooses as his running mate.

Trumpism Won’t be Defeated Until White Evangelicals are Discredited

June 22, 2019robertpaulreyes

Donald Trump received more than 80 percent support from evangelicals in 2016. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign may have been a publicity and narcissistic enterprise, but white evangelicals considered it a moral crusade to Make America Great Again by turning back the clock on women’s reproductive freedom, gay rights and racial equality.

White evangelicals are very pleased with the two far-right Supreme Court judges that were appointed by Trump, and not to mention the close to two hundred judges he has appointed to federal appeals courts. They are ecstatic over the setbacks that Trump had dealt to the LGBTQ communities. They have ramped up their efforts to reelect their False Messiah, the moral reprobate is the perfect presidential candidate for evangelicals who are committed to their so-called family friendly causes.

The usual evangelical suspects have earmarked hundreds of millions in their crusade to reelect Trump. Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition is spending tens of millions on a voter mobilization effort that aims to register 1 million Christians in key battleground states. The Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion rights group, has a budget of $41 million this campaign cycle to reelect Trump and other anti-abortion candidates. The Family Research Council is also putting their money where their mouth is and pouring millions into the ungodly mission to reelect the short-fingered vulgarian.

It is manifestly clear that Trump could not have won without the support of white evangelicals, and it’s incumbent upon Democrats, Independents and Republicans who haven’t swallowed the Kool-Aide to redouble their efforts to defeat Trump and destroy the white evangelical movement.

Patriots can take these steps to delegitimize, demoralize and defeat white evangelicals:

Ridicule

There are no sacred cows, and where is it written that religion should be exempt from ridicule? Sanctimonious evangelicals with their penchant for hypocrisy, racism, and misogyny make such easy targets.

Demonstrate

Why in the holy name of God aren’t there any protests at megachurches? White evangelicals support the chaos of the Trump administration, so why not bring some chaos to their churches?

Tax-exempt status

If white evangelical churches are acting like political organizations why not yank their tax-exempt status? I think it’s an abomination that my tax money is being used to support churches that support homophobia, misogyny and xenophobia.

Join me in my mission from God to impeach Trump and to put the fear of God in white evangelicals!

Donald Trump Has an Excellent Chance of Being Reelected

June 20, 2019robertpaulreyes

Donald Trump is not a stable genius. He’s an unstable moron. He’s the living manifestation of Murphy’s Law. He has no master plan. He’s not playing three dimensional chess. He’s playing online checkers against a computer set at bonehead level of difficulty. He doesn’t have the intellectual capacity to think three moves ahead. He relies on his gut to navigate the game board. He didn’t win the presidency because of his oratorical brilliance or intelligent campaign strategy. His anti-establishment rhetoric and anti-immigrant message resonated with just enough white evangelicals, blue-collar workers and latent racists to seize the race from the elitist and universally despised Hillary Clinton. Lightening can strike twice. Donald Trump can win reelection. White evangelicals are even more enamored with their False Messiah than they were four years ago. Racists are more emboldened to support the white nationalist-in-chief. God does have a twisted sense of humor. We do get the political leaders that we deserve. A Democrat-controlled House of Representatives that is too cowardly to impeach Trump lacks the moral authority to persuade the electorate to throw the bum out of office. I have the demoralizing feeling that two years from now Democrats will still be debating whether or not to impeach Trump.

Donald Trump, Israel and White Evangelicals

June 19, 2019robertpaulreyes

The modern day state of Israel resembles apartheid era South Africa more than it does the Biblical state of Israel. It’s an article of faith for white evangelicals to support Israel religiously even though the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is politically corrupt and morally degenerate. He treats the peace process with disdain, and the Palestinians in the occupied territories with contempt.

White evangelicals are an integral part of Trump’s base, and he knows just how to play them. He pandered to these religious extremists by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capitol, and relocating the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The cherry on top of the cake was when he recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

Netanyahu knows just how to play Trump, in gratitude to Trump for blessing Israel with all of these diplomatic gifts without having to make any concession to the Palestinians in return he named a settlement in the Golan Heights after him.

At a ceremony to inaugurate the new settlement, Netanyahu stood in front of a gold-trimmed sign that reads “Ramat Trump”, and said:

“We are proud to have the opportunity to establish a new community, and also to honor a big friend…Many years have passed since a new settlement was established in the Golan Heights. Today it is happening: We are making an important step toward the rise of Ramat Trump. It will proudly carry the name of a very great friend of the State of Israel, and I am also very proud to say a great friend of mine—President Donald Trump.”

The only part of the proposed settlement that has been built is the gold-trimmed sign, but that’s enough to stroke Trump’s ego. Trump must realize that in his own country very few public buildings, if any at all, will be named after him when he leaves office, so I’m sure he appreciates Netanyahu’s generous gesture.

Israel will never achieve the grandeur of its Biblical era until it has a Prime Minister who resembles King Solomon more than P. W. Botha, and America won’t be great again until it has a president who resembles Abraham Lincoln more than Richard Nixon.

A Senile Donald Trump Calls in to ‘Fox & Friends’ on his Birthday

June 16, 2019robertpaulreyes

Most septuagenarians celebrate birthdays by putting on their dentures to nibble at a sheet cake from Costco with their fellow nursing home residents whose names they’ve long ago forgotten.

Trump’s mind is as addled as your average nursing home resident, but wealth and privilege has enabled him to move from a mansion to the White House, and he celebrated his 73^rd birthday by calling in to the three bobble head dolls/anchors of Fox & Friends: Steven Doocy, Ainsely Earhardt, and Brian Kilmeade.

If your senile grandpa calls you on his birthday you will indulge him for a few minutes before cutting him off, but when the demented grandpa is the President of the United States and he’s calling in to his favorite show in his favorite network the three stooges have no recourse but to let him eat up almost an hour of the top-rating cable news program.

The marathon call was a 50-minute stream of consciousness/river of petty vindictiveness occasionally interrupted with a sycophantic comment from dumb, dumber, and bimbo.

I’m not going to get into the substance of Trump’s diatribe for that would be as educational and enlightening as examining my diarrhea after consuming a 7-11 hotdog. Suffice to say that watching Trump call in to Fox & Friends lowered my IQ by 20 points, and raised my blood pressure by 50 points.

Donald Trump’s Disastrous Interview with George Stephanopoulos

June 15, 2019robertpaulreyes

Donald Trump’s interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos was an unmitigated disaster, it exposed the president as unprepared and unpresidential. It’s no wonder that Trump rarely grants an interview with a real journalist, and he prefers to chat with the friendly news personalities of Fox News.

In the most shocking segment of the interview Trump told Stephanopoulos that he’d accept dirt on his opponents offered by other governments and ridiculed the idea of telling the FBI about it. Trump’s answer proves that the only lesson he learned from the Mueller investigation is that he can get away with anything, and he considers himself above the law.

When the stable genius was pressed by Stephanopoulos on why he didn’t answer questions from Mueller about obstruction, the short-fingered vulgarian resorted to name-calling, calling the 5’5” journalist “a little wise guy.” Once again demonstrating that when the fuc*ing moron can’t compete on an intellectual level, he lasing out with juvenile insults.

In one part of the interview the 6’3” buffoon was sitting at the Oval Office while the petite Stephanopoulos was standing, negating Trump’s height advantage and making him appear small. Where the hell are Trump’s handlers, are they too afraid to give him advice?

Stephanopoulos clearly came ahead in the encounter, he refused to be intimidated by Trump’s bluster, and refused to accept his initial disclaimers.

Donald Trump Signed The D-Day Proclamation In The Wrong Place

June 11, 2019robertpaulreyes

“Of course, Trump was unlikely to let arguably the single most momentous and traumatic day of fighting of the 20th century upstage him. He was one of 15 world leaders to sign a special D-Day proclamation reaffirming the importance of co-operation and peace, but took the opportunity to remind everyone in Europe who’s the best by completely forgoing basic letter-signing decorum. Nothing says ‘We affirm that it is our shared responsibility to ensure that the unimaginable horror of these years is never repeated’ quite like scrawling your name at the top of a proclamation to show you’re actually the best.”

Esquire

After almost two and a half years in office, Donald Trump has signed myriad executive orders, and you’d think that the stable genius would know that important documents are signed at the bottom.

But it’s probably not ignorance as much as narcissism that compelled the fucking moron to scrawl his signature at the top of the proclamation.

He wanted his signature to stand out, and he didn’t want the name of any of the European leaders to be in close proximity to his own. Just to me sure his signature stood out, he did a John Hancock.

I guess we can’t rule out that the buffoon thought that “D-Day” stood for “Donald Day”, and his autograph deserved a place of honor.

Dear Lord what a moron! Some patriot should tie his tiny hands so he can’t tweet or sign anything.

It’s a Sin for White Evangelicals to Pray that God Protect Trump

June 9, 2019robertpaulreyes

“First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.” — 1 Timothy 2:1-2

For generations Christians, including evangelicals, interpreted this admonition from the Apostle Paul as a directive to pray that their political leaders were guided by the wisdom of the Almighty. Even in authoritarian states where Christians were persecuted, they prayed that their dictators might bend to the will of God.

These prayers were uttered in the same spirit of a beauty queen contestant’s pontification on world peace during the interview segment of the beauty pageant. No one believes that a beauty queen’s soliloquy on peace will bend the moral arc of the universe toward peace and justice, and no Christian really believes that his supplications for political leaders will have an effect on their morality and adherence to Scripture.

But in the 1970’s with the rise of the Moral Majority, white evangelicals started to equate spirituality with the Republican Party, and instead of praying in a general sense for wisdom for political leaders, they prayed that the Congress and the president would uphold the family values of the GOP: anti-abortion, anti-women, and pro guns, a strong military and prayer in public schools.

Being pro-Republican is so ingrained in evangelical thinking that they now embrace a thrice married real estate huckster and serial sexual predator who became president by demonizing immigrants and palling around with white nationalists.

When white evangelicals intercede with the Almighty on behalf of Trump they don’t pray that he repent of his racism, intolerance and mean and petty ways, they pray that God would defend him from his enemies and bring his racist policies to fruition.

And they really believe in the efficacy of their prayers, they are persuaded that God is blessing their false Messiah, and his mission to make America Great Again.

We can be faithful to Paul’s teaching to pray for those in high positions without selling our souls to an extreme political ideology. Simply put: If a president’s policies and rhetoric are antithetical to the message of love and peace of the Gospels pray for his repentance, and if he rules with compassion and understanding, pray that God continues to bless him.

But thoughts and prayers and two bucks won’t get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks, vote the short-fingered vulgarian out of office in 2020.

Move Over Trump Baby Blimp, Here Comes the Farting Trump Robot

June 5, 2019robertpaulreyes

“Thousands of Brits took to the streets here Tuesday, where they marched alongside a 16-foot farting robot of Donald Trump and held aloft huge photos of John McCain in an attempt to trigger the president.”

Daily Beast

During Donald Trump’s visit to the UK, the inflatable caricature of Trump (universally known as Trump Baby) was flown in protest of his racism, bigotry, and xenophobia. Basically the blimp is a protest against everything foul that Trump represents.

The balloon which has achieved iconic status was first flown over Parliament Square, London on July 28, in protest of Trump’s first visit to England as president.

Trump Baby has a presence on all the major social media platforms, and he is so popular that he has made appearances at anti-Trump demonstrations in Paris, Buenos Aires and other major cities, and replicas of the beloved blimp have flown over hundreds of anti-Trump rallies all over the world.

Move over Trump Baby, a new Trump protest symbol made its inaugural appearance this week in London. The Trump farting robot sits atop his golden throne (a golden toilet) with a smartphone in his tiny hand. It emits farting noises and the mantra “no collusion.”

I favor the realism school of art, therefore I would have filled the toilet bowl with real excrement, and given Trump’s penchant for golden showers I would have poured urine all over the work of art. But at least the creator, Don Lessem, kept things real my making his penis only three millimeters.

I’ve grown in love with Trump Baby, and I don’t think the Farting Trump Robot will become quite as popular, but kudos to the Brits for being so inventive and creative.

It’s in White Evangelicals’ DNA to Worship Donald Trump

June 2, 2019robertpaulreyes

It’s axiomatic that white evangelicals worship Donald Trump, but let’s examine why this is the case:

White evangelical ministries, for the most part, aren’t hierarchical organizations like the Catholic Church where the local parish priest has to answer to his archbishop, cardinal and of course the infallible pope. Franklin Graham, Pat Robertson, Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland and Creflo Dollar aren’t restrained from their wildest impulses by a board of deacons, they answer only to themselves. They justify their most outlandish pontifications, by claiming that the Almighty is speaking through them.

It’s in white evangelicals’ DNA to worship an authoritarian figure like Trump, who disparages the coequal Judiciary and Congress and pretty much does damn well as he pleases.

Evangelical leaders aren’t challenged by their followers because they preach the inspired an infallible Word of God, never mind that Christianity is a Byzantium religion with thousands of denominations, each one with their own unique interpretation of scripture. Trump speaks with the authority of a televangelist, and his sycophants accept everything he says as the Gospel truth even though he’s a pathological liar.

Evangelicals have a binary world view: Christians and sinners. Likewise Trump supporters have a binary belief system: There’s them and then there’s everyone else: liberals, feminists, abortionists, homosexuals, globalists, climate change fanatics …

Evangelical ministers are prone to making crazy promises, “Give to my ministry and I will build the biggest cathedral, the largest university in the world”, all for the glory of God of course. “Give us your tithes and offerings and we will convert the heathen lands of China and Russia”! Trump supporters swallow the buffoon’s incredible claims like: I will build a beautiful 30-foot concrete wall from sea to shining sea.

Evangelical ministers strip their followers of their money and self-respect and in return provide them with a superficial faith that doesn’t sustain them in difficult times. Ditto Trump.

Racist Donald Trump Won’t Swap Harriet Tubman for Andrew Jackson on $20 Bill

June 1, 2019robertpaulreyes

The American dynasty was built by the English invaders on the slavery of Africans and the genocide of the indigenous population, and centuries later these two races still lag far behind the white ruling class.

For a short time during the Barack Obama administration we dreamed that we were living in a post-racial society, but the election of Donald Trump has crushed those fantasies and brought us back to reality.

Trump is loath to see even symbolic acts of racial progress, thus he directed his Treasury Secretary to postpone the unveiling of the Harriet Tubman $20 bill until after he leaves office.

The Tubman bill was an Obama administration initiative, and Trump is determined to undermine every initiative and law of the first African American president.

And let us not forget that Tubman would replace the notoriously racist Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, the same bastard responsible for the Indian Removal Act:

At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. By the end of the decade, very few natives remained anywhere in the southeastern United States. Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians’ land, the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk thousands of miles to a specially designated “Indian territory” across the Mississippi River. This difficult and sometimes deadly journey is known as the Trail of Tears.

https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/trail-of-tears

There is no way in hell that Andrew Jackson a vile racist would be replaced on the $20 bill by Harriet Tubman, a former slave, abolitionist and founder of the Underground Railroad on the watch of the blatantly racist Trump.

Anybody who still thinks Trump isn’t a racist is a liar or a fool.

It’s Only a Matter of Time Before Trump Soils Himself on Live TV

May 30, 2019robertpaulreyes

“It’s Only a Matter of Time Before Trump Shits Himself. Frankly, I’m shocked it hasn’t happened already. We have a president who regularly shows signs of mental decline: He regularly forgets people’s names and places. He makes up words. This much is clear—there will quite likely come a time when our president shits himself, probably on TV, for all to see.”

Splinter/Katherine Krueger

Trump’s mouth looks remarkably like a sphincter, and watching him speak is like watching a porn video for freaks with a sphincter fetish. Nothing but crap flows from his mouth, and whenever I hear him speak I feel like taking a shower afterwards.

But I concur with Krueger that it’s only a matter of time before the stable genius shits himself. Trump is like a ticking bomb full of crap: there will be a detonation and the shit will hit the fan. You don’t have to be a professional gambler to know that the odds are in your favor that the obese septuagenarian who eats crap every day will sooner rather than later shit himself on live TV.

The man-baby probably stains his drawers in private every day. Mike Pence doesn’t just wash his mouth after kissing his boss’s bunghole, I bet he’s tasked with washing the feces stains from the sofas and chairs in the White House.

The short-fingered vulgarian has already besmirched the presidency beyond redemption, and it won’t be much of a shock to anyone when the inevitable happens and he suffers the mother of all wet farts in public.

White evangelicals will claim that the stain in clown’s rear end is the likeness of Jesus, and Nancy Pelosi will hold her nose and insist that it’s still not time to impeach the incontinent demented moron.

In other words, it will just be another day in the Trump White House when the crazy old buffoon soils his diapers.

Nancy Pelosi Stop Dithering Around and Impeach Donald Trump

May 29, 2019robertpaulreyes

“I pray for the president of the United States. And I pray for the United States of America.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Pelosi uttered these words after Donald Trump threw a temper tantrum and stomped out of meeting with Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to discuss a grand infrastructure deal. Trump was furious that shortly before the ill-fated meeting Pelosi had accused him of being engaged in a cover-up.

Trump drives some people to pray and others to curse, but it’s impossible to remain neutral about the most corrupt administration in history.

Allow me to parse Pelosi’s statement:

I take issue with the Speaker stating that she’s praying for the president of the United States, she should have said that she’s worried about the office of the president of the United States.

I refrain from referring to Trump as president, he’s not my president as he’s made it abundantly clear that he cares only about his base. He’s an illegitimate president who won the election with help from the Russians, and he’s never made the transition from firebrand populist campaigner to a statesman worthy of being called president.

I also take exception to Pelosi mixing religion and politics, doing so only further cheapens both corrupt institutions. I don’t believe in Trump’s border wall, but I do believe in the wall that separates church and state.

I don’t care if Pelosi, or any politician, prays to Jehovah, Lucifer or Tinky Winky, she would be well-advised to keep her religious sentiments to herself.

In these perilous times we need action, not thoughts and prayers, and the only action that makes any sense is impeachment. Pelosi is a master politician who knows how to get under Trump’s skin, the goal shouldn’t’ be to rattle the fucking moron, but to impeach him.

Pelosi calculates that if the House impeaches Trump, that the Senate would never remove him from office, and the controversy would only motivate his base and lead to his reelection.

Of course the Republican-led Senate would never remove him from office, but I doubt that his base can be any more motivated than they are now. If Trump shot Schumer in the well of the Senate, Republican Senators still wouldn’t impeach him and his base would still vote for him.

Trump must be impeached to demonstrate that no man is above the law, not even the president. He must pay a price for his high crimes and misdemeanors.

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